Atifete Jahjaga

Atifete Jahjaga (20 April 1975-) was President of Kosovo from 7 April 2011 to 7 April 2016, succeeding Jakup Krasniqi and preceding Hashim Thaci.

Biography
Atiete Jahjaga was born on 20 April 1975 in Gjakova, Kosovo, Yugoslavia. She graduated from the University of Pristina in 2000 with a law degree, and she studied in the United Kingdom and United States before returning to Kosovo to enter politics. Trained at the FBI Academy, she became a Major-General of the Kosovo Police, and in 2010 she was briefly General Director. On 7 April 2011, Jahjaga was elected as President of Kosovo as an independent candidate, and she said that the ideal of all Kosovo was a permanent friendship with the United States and membership in the European Union. Unfortunately, Kosovo was not given EU membership during her term as President. She strove to build interfaith and intercommunal relations in Kosovo, and she brought together the Orthodox Christian bishop Teodosije Sibalic, Catholic bishop Dode Gjergji, and Sunni Grand Mufti Naim Ternava to oppose discrimination and to promote cooperation. Jahjaga left office on 7 April 2016 after Hashim Thaci was elected President.